It’s hard work planting pots for winter and spring. I dread the work it entails, the heaving about of compost, […]
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Friday Flora – Fritillaria meleagris
I once caught the meadow at Magdalen College, Oxford, at exactly the right time. Thousands upon thousands of Fritillaria meleagris […]
James Bond’s Choice of Tulips
It’s time to order spring bulbs again. My problem is that I love them all and my wish list can […]
Friday Flora – Allium cristophii
I have too many alliums in my garden. Their leaves make fine highways for slugs and snails and hamper every […]
Friday Flora – Hyacinthoides non-scripta
There are bluebell woods dotted all around the Cotswolds, and as you drive about it is hard not to be […]
Friday Flora – Muscari armeniacum ‘Peppermint’
This little powder blue grape hyacinth has been flowering in my back door pots for at least three weeks now and […]
Friday Flora – Tulipa sylvestris
I first realised quite how beautiful Tulipa sylvestris was this time last year when I saw it planted in the […]
Sugar Rush – the sweet smell of spring
I like to plant a lot of pots just outside the back of our house. It welcomes guests and […]
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